MP Ssenyonyi protests fresh election petition challenging his election
August 4, 2021 Joel Ssenyonyi chairing a parliamentary Cosase committee session recently
Nakawa West MP and opposition National Unity Platform (NUP) spokesperson Joel Ssenyonyi has protested a fresh election petition filed against him. Ssenyonyi’s lawyers from Pace Advocates led by George Musisi, argue that the amended petition filed by Shukla Mukesh Babubhai on May 10, 2021, which they received on Monday evening introduces fresh allegations and came in court out of time.
Mukesh first petitioned the High court on March 19, 2021, challenging Ssenyonyi’s election victory mainly on allegations of electoral irregularities such as under-declaring his votes, ferrying non-registered voters to participate in elections as well as ballot stuffing among others.
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Uganda’s presidential challenger Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu, also known as Bobi Wine has appealed to ‘fellow citizens of the world’ to help him as he remained under house arrest with riot police and troops stationed outside his home.
“We have run short of food supplies and when my wife tried to go to our garden to pick food she was assaulted by the military. The only practical plan now is to inform the world to see, so that fellow citizens of the world can help us, he said in an audio conversation.
On Monday, 18 January, his lawyers tried to get access to the politician but they were unsuccessful as police detail their presence at his residence.